Downbelow Station

, #1

Paperback, 432 pages

English language

Published February 1981 by DAW.

ISBN:
978-0-87997-594-4
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OCLC Number:
7261853
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Pell's Star occupied the central spot in the coming conflict between Earth's tired stellar empire and the tough onslaught of its rebellious colonies. Whoever controlled Pell's Downbelow station held the key to Earth's defensive perimeter — or the jumping off point for a Terrestrial offensive to regain the lost empire.

But Pell had always been neutral and was determined to remain so.

This is a powerful, complex, and enthralling novel of interstellar conflict and ambitions. In its pages you will meet and strive with many vivid persons, human and non-human, who futures would hang on the outcome of that titanic struggle.

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reviewed Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh (The Company Wars, #1)

Great book with a slow start

I did really enjoy this one a lot, the start was really slow, but not in a bad way, it just was slow, but then from the half way point on it was great, the book did a good job in building up characters that we care about so that the ending and the way there was a lot more impactful.

Also, for such an old book it felt very modern, with just some mentions of tape kind of showing it's age, but you can always kind of take that away as being some modern new thing as well, at least I can :p

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